BILL NUMBER: ACR 165	CHAPTERED  09/05/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   124
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 5, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 25, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 7, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 5, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Thompson

                        MAY 16, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 165--Relative to Ronald Packard
Parkway.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 165, Thompson.  Ronald Packard Parkway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 78 as the "Ronald Packard Parkway."  The measure would request
the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate
plaques and markers so designating that portion of State Highway
Route 78 and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering
that cost, to erect appropriate plaques and markers.




   WHEREAS, The Honorable Ronald C. Packard, who was first elected to
represent the citizens of the 48th Congressional District in 1982,
served as the chairperson of the North County Transit District in San
Diego County; and
   WHEREAS, Congressman Packard's interest in transportation issues
was demonstrated by his 10 years of membership on the House Public
Works and Transportation Committee and his eight years of exemplary
service on the House Transportation Appropriation Subcommittee; and
   WHEREAS, Ronald Packard was instrumental in obtaining funding for
the San Diego Trolley and Coaster Rail systems and receiving needed
supplemental funding for numerous highway interchanges throughout San
Diego County; and
   WHEREAS, The funding and development of the San Joaquin and
Foothills toll roads in Riverside County, which has made a
significant contribution to the easing of freeway congestion, can, in
great part, be attributed to the efforts of this transportation
leader; and
   WHEREAS, The primary person responsible for the improvements made
to the State Highway Routes 76 and 78 is Congressman Ronald C.
Packard; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate that a portion of State Highway Route
78 be dedicated in honor of the man who made so many contributions to
the transportation systems of the region; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby dedicates that
portion of State Highway Route 78 between its junction with
Interstate Highway Route 5 and its junction with Interstate Highway
Route 15 in honor of  Ronald C. Packard by officially designating
that route as the Ronald Packard Parkway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
this special designation, and upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those plaques and
markers; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.
